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Anatomical Adaptations of Halophytes

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Salinity is a common phenomenon and one of the fundamental features of arid and semiarid zones. Basically, there is a close correlation between soil aridity and salinity. Several operational concepts are briefly discussed: solonchaks, solonetzs, solods, saline soils, alkalized soils in relation to natural vegetation of halophytes.

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    This term will be used throughout the text as a Romanian native one, without being translated, as is the case of Arabic term sabkha (flat salt desert), a term accepted nowadays by multidisciplinary scientists (see the series edited by Öztürk et al. 2011; Khan et al. 2014).

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  1. Faculty of Biology, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iasi, Romania

    Marius-Nicușor Grigore

  2. Faculty of Biology, Plant Anatomy & Ecology Laboratory, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iasi, Romania

    Constantin Toma

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Grigore, MN., Toma, C. (2017). Saline Environments. In: Anatomical Adaptations of Halophytes. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66480-4_2

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